Yves Saint Laurent at Fundación Mapfre

Fundación Mapfre (Madrid, Spain), in collaboration with the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, presents until January 8, 2012, the exhibition Yves Saint Laurent, the first retrospective of this artist and designer to be held in Spain, offering a complete survey of a career that spanned forty years of creativity.

The exhibition is organized thematically into eleven sections that present a selection of around 150 examples of haute couture and prêt-à-porter, as well as more than 80 drawings, photographs and films.

Some of the issues that we can see through the exhibition are Yves Saint Laurent’s training with Dior, the traditional boundaries of haute couture, the introduction of typically male garments in women’s fashion; the influence of certain women in the designer’s life and work such as Loulou de la Falaise or Catherine Deneuve; the YSL tribute to artists such as Tom Wesselmann, Henri Matisse and George Brake and the creation of the first tuxedo for women.

Date: until January 8, 2012.
Place: Fundación Mapfre. Instituto de Cultura. Paseo de Recoletos, 23. Madrid. Spain
Opening hours: Monday from 2pm to 8pm. From Monday to Saturday from 10am to 8pm. Sundays from 11am to 7pm.